CDAY vs. DAY, PAYC, MNDY, CYBR, U, TWLO, INFA, PCTY, GWRE, and GTLB
Should you be buying Ceridian HCM stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ceridian HCM include Dayforce (DAY), Paycom Software (PAYC), monday.com (MNDY), CyberArk Software (CYBR), Unity Software (U), Twilio (TWLO), Informatica (INFA), Paylocity (PCTY), Guidewire Software (GWRE), and GitLab (GTLB). These companies are all part of the "prepackaged software" industry.
Dayforce (NYSE:DAY) and Ceridian HCM (NYSE:CDAY) are both large-cap computer and technology companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking and media sentiment.
Dayforce presently has a consensus target price of $77.00, indicating a potential upside of 13.60%. Ceridian HCM has a consensus target price of $76.38, indicating a potential upside of 15.58%. Given Dayforce's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ceridian HCM is more favorable than Dayforce.
Dayforce has a net margin of 3.62% compared to Dayforce's net margin of 0.28%. Ceridian HCM's return on equity of 4.47% beat Dayforce's return on equity.
In the previous week, Ceridian HCM had 1 more articles in the media than Dayforce. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Ceridian HCM and 2 mentions for Dayforce. Dayforce's average media sentiment score of 1.75 beat Ceridian HCM's score of 0.34 indicating that Ceridian HCM is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Dayforce has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ceridian HCM has a beta of 1.38, meaning that its stock price is 38% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Ceridian HCM received 300 more outperform votes than Dayforce when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 57.55% of users gave Ceridian HCM an outperform vote while only 33.33% of users gave Dayforce an outperform vote.
Dayforce has higher revenue and earnings than Ceridian HCM. Dayforce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ceridian HCM, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ceridian HCM beats Dayforce on 10 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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